Save My Life: Boston Trauma
★ 7 · 2015 · 40m · Reality · Documentary
In "Save My Life: Boston Trauma", viewers will get unparalleled access to top tier trauma teams inside the emergency rooms and operating rooms of the nation’s most prestigious hospitals including the Boston Medical Center, Massachusetts General, and Brigham and Women’s. Lives that could be lost in lesser hands at less renowned medical centers are saved through feats of miraculous skill. The only certainty is that those who need care will receive the very best that medicine has to offer. This remarkable series tells many stories of heroism, poignancy, and unexpected humor. One minute a mother struggles with the news that her son has been critically wounded in a shooting, while in the next scene doctors become a captive audience as their patient launches into an impromptu rap.
Episodes
1. Episode 140m · The ERs and ORs of prestigious Boston hospitals attempt to save two young men after they've been gunned down in Charlestown. Elsewhere, a nursing student is involved in a car accident in which the other driver is also a nurse and an injured motorcyclist raps for the doctors and nurses.▶2. Episode 240m · A horrific motorcycle accident involving an off-duty firefighter is caught on camera; a teenager falls through floorboards in a church; Boston Garden EMS personnel deal with a contentious sports fan; a volleyball player with a dislocated ankle.▶3. Episode 340m · A teen whose hand was severed in a car accident is taken to Massachusetts General Hospital to have it reattached; a firefighter falls from the roof of a burning building; a young man takes a bullet to the chest.▶4. Episode 440m · A car hits a medical student who is out biking; a woman with a latex allergy has a reaction after eating food prepared by workers wearing rubber gloves; an ER doctor keeps his cool when a patient becomes aggressive.▶5. Episode 540m · A man suffers internal injuries after a fall from a ladder; a woman is trapped underneath a subway; a man suffers a stab wound and refuses to be cut open.▶6. Episode 640m · Orthopedic doctors try to repair a rock climber's broken foot; a man wounded by a knife-wielding assailant is unexpectedly calm; a man trying to prevent his wife from falling down a flight of stairs ends up falling with her.More Like This
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